Commentary

A Kremlin cyber operations unit has been embedded in RT since last year and has gone to global lengths to spread Russian propaganda, said Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The State Department on Friday said Russia’s state-owned RT news agency has expanded operations to become a sophisticated, mainstay arm of the Kremlin’s military intelligence nexus, and helped deploy a covert fundraising operation for body armor, radios, rifles and other military equipment for Russia’s war in Ukraine. Canada and the United Kingdom joined the ...

The first night in Lviv was replete with sirens of various categories and lengths This had been preceded several days earlier by an unprecedented missile attack resulting in serious fatalities including that of a family of four with the remaining father hospitalized. Once again this target bore no proximity to any military targets, energy grid, or anything remotely connected with the war and Ukrainian resistance. It was simply a grotesque message from the Russians to Ukrainians: we will wipe you off the face of the earth. Today, Friday, September 6, 2024, the people of Lviv paid their...

Ukraine's surprise offensive into Kursk has not only caught Russia off guard but also shocked its allies, exposing the contrast between Ukrainian boldness and the West's timidity. The Ukrainian attack into Kursk in Russia, now into its third week, was a tactical and operational surprise for the Russians. There are many reasons for this, including Russia not assembling all the available pieces of intelligence to anticipate the Ukrainian attack, the Ukrainian deception plan, and a failure of humility on the part of Putin’s regime and military. The Ukrainians have also surprised their supporters in the West. This was in large part because Ukraine deliberately withheld details of the Kursk attack to preserve operational security, maximise its chances of achieving surprise and shock against the Russians, guard against the inflated expectations of the failed 2023 counteroffensive and avoid second guessing by talkative, risk-adverse bureaucrats in the West. Ukraine has shown that, fortunately, strategic audacity is not entirely...

The NATO Summit in Washington had two purposes: to recognize the 75 years of NATO and strengthen the defensive alliance and to substantively help Ukraine. The first was fanfare although its purpose was to encourage the remaining one third of NATO nations to spend on military more than 2% of its GDP. The remaining one third includes some serious members such as France and Germany, but also less serious members such as Canada, Slovenia, Spain, Belgium and extremely wealthy Luxembourg. Granted that Canada has an ocean as a buffer. Nevertheless, with the Trump assassination attempt NATO must take into account that the United States will be missing in action as to Europe's defence against Russia. Senator J.D. Vance, now the Vice President under Trump posted about two hours after the incident: "Today is not...

The 75th NATO Summit in Washington concluded with the endorsement of the Ukraine Compact. This document serves as a supplement to the Joint G7 Declaration agreed upon a year ago at the previous NATO Summit in Vilnius. In total, 32 participants have already joined it, all of whom were present today, including 23 leaders of countries with which Ukraine has signed bilateral security agreements...

It has come to our attention that reportedly a presentation on "VYSHYVANKA DAY" in Canada’s Parliament by a young Ukrainian woman, Lesia Voroniuk, was abruptly cancelled. The purported reason given was that among notable Ukrainians, who also wore as part of their attire an embroidered shirt, was Stepan Bandera, and whose shirt was recreated as part of a general project -- " Embroidery in the attire of notable Ukrainians". A REMINDER: Stepan Bandera was a political leader of the Ukrainian National Resistance against Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. He spent almost 4 years in a Nazi concentration camp and was assassinated by a Soviet agent in 1959...

The twenty-seventh month of the war was marked by the invasion of Russian troops into the territory of the Kharkiv region, the trip of the Kremlin satrap to the Beijing Bogdykhan, the resignation of Shoigu and a blow to two of Putin’s allies – in Slovakia and Iran. The increase in military assistance to Ukraine from the West is traditionally accompanied by the whining of those who like to preserve “Putin’s face,” and the strengthening of the real, armed opposition, is accompanied by a discussion of its (the opposition’s) moral qualities. The next “inauguration” of the Dresden resident, which took place on 7 May, demonstrated that the neo-Soviet nomenclature was determined to hold on to power. The general mood was guessed by the operative in a cassock, Vladimir Gundyaev (call sign “Kirill”), who...

The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) urgently appeals to the governments of democratic nations worldwide to provide air defense and missile defense systems to Ukraine. These systems are crucial for safeguarding civilian populations, particularly children, from Russian daily deadly missile strikes, thereby protecting their lives and health. “Ukraine’s allies have sufficient air and missile defense resources that could be deployed to permanently or temporarily shield Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructures. Ukraine urgently needs these systems now! The cost of each delay is measured in the lives of Ukrainian civilians,” said UWC President Paul Grod. Ahead of the International Day for the Protection of Children...

Tatarstan, Kuban, Leningrad region… This is not a complete list of Russian territories where Ukrainian drones have recently started to fly, causing significant losses to the enemy. After all, their strikes hit both military economy facilities that provide Russia with high financial revenues and are involved in providing the Russian army with resources for combat operations (refineries, oil and gas terminals, oil storage facilities, etc.) and military targets. Ukrainian drones will fly beyond the Urals From January to April of this year alone, 48 facilities were damaged by Ukrainian airstrikes. Since January 2024, Ukrainian drone strikes have hit at least 29 oil, gas, and metallurgical facilities, oil terminals, and storage facilities; at least 19 military and defense facilities, including airfields in Russia. The geography of these strikes is expanding. From the...

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